jlgaddis

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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Find a value that is unique to each server (e.g. the UUID of the / partition?) ... FWIW, that's pretty much what /etc/machine-id is for.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
In my experiences, the "standard" way to do this is to simply add a random sleep before running the task. For example, to run a task at some point between midnight and 3 a.m., you can use this cronjob entry: 0 0 * * * sleep $
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
You say you can't add RAM or SSDs but that sounds like exactly what you need. If your data doesn't fit in RAM (and, with 25MM records/day, it doesn't), then you're gonna be hitting those slow HDDs when you run queri
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... and ~170 business burned down, this is spiraling out of control To be clear, that is NOT what the article you linked states. It reads: > The St. Paul Police Department said more than 170 businesses were looted or damaged Th
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
So run a traceroute?
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> Is there a good way to test what my actual upload speed is? Yes, use iperf or netperf instead.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> They're running it on VirtualBox. That's just a normal desktop VM, nothing cloudy. You might be surprised. If you have VirtualBox installed, try executing the CLI "front-end" without specifying any subcommands or
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I didn't look through the specs in detail so I'm not sure, but according to the copy I quoted above: > ... without any fans ...
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
According to VMware [0]: > You can install Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS in a virtual machine. Fusion creates the virtual machine, opens the operating system installation assistant, and installs VMware Tools. VMware Tools loads the drivers r
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
PSA: On Windows, this script downloads and runs an .exe files which is (contained within a .zip file which is) downloaded via unencrypted HTTP; cf. ~L306.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I've not used one and can't speak to their quality but: > The CRS305 is a compact yet very powerful switch, featuring four SFP+ ports, for up to 10 Gbit per port. The device has a 1 Gbit copper ethernet port for management acc
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
In the past, the "Internet speed record" was measured in units such as "terabit meters-per-second": > ... they had managed to send nearly 840 gigabytes of data across a distance of 16,346 kilometers (10,157 miles) in
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> spyware is software that spies on other processes. The New Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covert
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> This whole bastardization of the word 'Telemetry' by the online community is completely abhorrent. You're right, it has been bastardized. We used to call it what it actually is: spyware .
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
http://www.nxnsattack.com
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> I'm wondering if the same software can be deployed to mainframes and non-mainframes easily. Pretty much any "modern" software you can write can run on these machines, if that's what you're wondering.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> As a developer, why would you want to waste your time learning about this sort of tech (I can't think of a more risky ecosystem to invest your time into learning in terms of chance of the skillset becoming obsolete)? You realize
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> It might be nice to add a line before the PGP header explaining what was going on, though. Maybe something like ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- This?
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
VMware's entire strategy at the moment appears to be hybrid/multi-cloud and Kubernetes. If you can't do that already (and I'm fairly certain you can), you shouldn't have to wait much longer -- as this "partners
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Well, if your instance is important enough, there's vSphere Fault Tolerance [0]: > You can use vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) for most mission critical virtual machines. FT provides continuous availability for such a virtual machine
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Sounds kinda like the HP Netserver LX Pro I had a long time ago (I finally got rid of it ~15 years ago when moving). There's a reason that beast had heavy-duty caster wheels -- fully decked out with 12 SCSI HDDs installed, that thing w
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ... DANE has been seeing deployment success for SMTP, ... Since "DANE for e-mail" is still relatively new / obscure, for the uninitiated, RFC7672 [0] describes "SMTP Security via Opportunistic DNS-Based Authentica
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
128 TB in 1U of space. Damn.
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Discussed here four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23115629
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
I don't have a link handy but someone mentioned in an HN comment a few days ago that they created a "shortcut" on iOS that simply hits the Pi-hole URL to temporarily disable blocking. Seemed like a great way to handle that p
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
Here's an HN thread [0] from a few years ago regarding "advertising" in the MOTD, specifically, and Ubuntu's "dynamic" MOTD, generally. (I'm not sure if all of the hardware/system details were being s
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> You won't see it unless you get rid of the login manager and login at the terminal. Or, use the server edition. And even though you don't see it, it's still there -- on every Ubuntu install (by default) -- phoning home
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
You can , but it does require one to RTFM and know/learn about the available installation options. My automated "preseed" installs are quite minimal. I don't recall exactly how many packages I end up with on a new insta
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
You can avoid installing non-required dependencies by adding the following (based on your preferences and/or use case) to a file in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory: APT::Install-Recommends "false";
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by jlgaddis 6y ago
> ...but not to which site thanks to TLS. Are you sure? > The desired hostname is not encrypted, so an eavesdropper can see which site is being requested. [0] ESNI is meant to fix this but isn't, yet, widely deployed (AFAIK).

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